Need to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path.
ALAN GREENSPANAn almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production, jobs and price stability.
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Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of our ever-changing economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank.
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There’s an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology.
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Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.
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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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So there is no reason to suspect that the actual process of boosting rates would be any different.
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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum.
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There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.
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If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
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Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets.
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Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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